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Volcanoes
Layers of the Earth
Earthquakes
Soil
Land
100
Molten rock
What is magma?
100
The layer that surrounds the core/center of the earth
What is mantle?
100
The instrument that detects and records vibrations and movements in the Earth?
What is a seismograph?
100
The accumulation or laying down of matter by a natural process.
What is deposition?
100
A huge mass of ice slowly flowing over a land mass.
What is a glacier?
200
an opening in the earths crust through which molten lava, ash, and gases erupt
What is a volcano?
200
The top layer of the earth that we walk on.
What is crust?
200
A sudden movement of the earth's crust.
What is an earthquake?
200
The material that settles to the bottom of a liquid.
What is sediment?
200
A long, narrow elevation.
What is a ridge?
300
Molten rock that reaches the earth's surface through a volcano or a fissure
What is lava?
300
What is the center of the earth?
What is core?
300
A crack in the Earth's crust where one side drops, leaving the other side higher.
What is a fault?
300
Occurs when rain, wind and other weathering wears soil away.
What is erosion?
300
A large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth.
What is a mountain?
400
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What is the volcano we made in class and exploded?
400
How many layers of the Earth are there?
What is 3?
400
A great sea wave produced especially by submarine earth movement or volcanic eruption.
What is a tsunami?
400
The breaking down of rocks, soil, and minerals.
What is weathering?
400
A steep-sided valley on the ocean floor.
What is a trench?
500
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What is the volcano we made in class and ate?
500
What layer of the Earth does the magma come from?
What is core?
500
The movement/formation of continents described by the theory of plate tectonics.
What is continental drift?
500
The natural waste product excreted from cows, chickens, etc. that can be mixed in with the soil to help fertilize it.
What is manure?
500
A level area of land.
What is a plain?